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No. 243,888. Patented July 5, 1881.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN M. BLACKBURN, OF MERIDEN, CONNECTICUT.y

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. SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 243,838, dated July 5, 1881.

Application filed June 6, 1881. (No model.)

articles which are made with an inner and an outer casing, so as to leave an air-space between the two, and commonly called doublewalled.77 These have usually been made with the outer casing entirely of metal. In some cases, however,the outer casing has been made from wood, papier-mache, Ste. Y

The object of this invention is to construct the body of the outer casing from glass, porcelain, or similar material, which may be decorated, and which, combined with metal trimmings, produces a pleasing contrast and a highly ornamental article, and in such an article this invention consists.

I make the base A from metal, similar in shape to the base portion of a common metal ice-pitcher. In the upper edge of the base I form a groove, shoulder, or recess, a, into which the glass or similar material section, B, is introduced. This section B is made in the usual manner for making articles of glass. It is in shape bf a hollow cylinder, or may be tapering or other shape, its lower end constructed to lit the seat ain the base-section A, and is there firmly secured by cement or otherwise.

C is the upper section or neck, which is formed of metal, and with a` groove, shoulder, or other recess to form a seat, b, for the upper Y end of the section B.

The seat a in the lower section and b in the upper section are made to overlap the respective edges or ends of the section B, and the section is secured in both by cement or otherwise, so that the three parts are held firmly together.

The inner vessel or receiver, D, is made and secured to the neck in the usual manner. The spout E is attached to the neck and communicates with the interior, also in the usual manner. v

The handle F is attached by the upper end to the upper section, C, and by the lower end to the base-section, or may be directly to the section B.

By making` the central section or body, B, of

glass, porcelain, or similar material, the surface may be ornamented with colors baked thereon,and thus produce a pleasing contrast between that section and the trimmings, and a highly-,ornamentalarticle, the cost of which is little more than metal.

It will be understood that as made ot` glass that kind of glass commonly called opal glass is used.

While designed especially for icepitchers, it will be understood that the invention may be applied to other similar articles. Therefore by the term ice-pitcher I wish to be understood as embracing such analogous articles.

I claim- The herein-described iceApitcher, consisting' of the metal base and neck sections A and C, combined with the intermediate section or body, B, made from glass or similar material, the said base and neck sections constructed with seats to receive and secure respectively the lower and upper ends 'of said body, substantially as described.

JOHN M. BLACKBURN.

Witnesses:

FRANK S. FAY, LEROY C. PARDEE. 

